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I am very impressed with the real-time Real America's Voice coverage of the election--many areas covered, people reporting first-hand accounts from all across the country.

Fox is so bad I am watching CNN for election results.

I’ve been a journalist for a long time. Long enough to know that it wasn’t always like this. There was a time not so long ago when journalists were trusted and admired. We were generally seen as trying to report the news in a fair and straightforward manner. Today, all that has changed. For that, we can blame the 2016 election or, more accurately, how some news organizations chose to cover it.

In the wake of the George Stephanopoulos scandal, most voters doubt the accuracy of political news coverage and think most reporters will slant their coverage of the 2016 presidential campaign. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 61% of Likely U.S. Voters now do not trust the political news they are getting. That's a 16-point jump from 45% last October. Twenty-one percent (21%) still have confidence in the political coverage they get, but that's down from 33% in the earlier survey. Seventeen percent (17%) are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.) When it comes to...

Cable news normally serves as the front line for breaking news, but the channels largely took the weekend off as Tehran exploded in protests after Iran’s presidential election. The performance of the American cable news, especially CNN, spawned an online protest by thousands on Saturday and Sunday, showing that viewers can try to pressure news organizations about their coverage in real time via the Internet. Fox News Channel and MSNBC also were said to have covered the protests in limited ways.

Speaking at the annual conference of the Association of National Advertisers, New York Times editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal said the paper “aims to ensure opinion and news are kept separate, even as the Internet increasingly blurs the line” (as reported in Advertising Age on October 17). Stop, you’re killing me! The New York Times is to journalistic integrity what Vlad The Impaler was to “can’t-we-all-just-learn-to-get-along?” The public doesn’t share Rosenthal’s perspective. Earlier this year, a Rasmussen Reports survey found that just 24% of American voters have a favorable opinion of The New York Times - making the paper as...

Post your thoughts here regarding TV news bias on Election Night. It was bad enough in 2000 and got worse in 2004. This time, the TV networks will mount a lovefest to the One!

Photo Ops in Politics by: Irene Warren, September 29, 2008 Big-name news celebrities shared center stage at the Brookings Institution recently to host an exclusive presentation with Kiku Adatto, author of Picture Perfect: Life in the Age of the Photo Op, as they explored photo expressions and addressed the problems with photo ops in politics, William A. Galston, with the Brookings Institution, explained. “The event is part of the Governing Ideas series,” Galston noted, “it is intended to broaden the discussion of governance issues through forums on timely and relevant books on history, culture, legal norms and practices, and also...

WASHINGTON (Hollywood Reporter) - Lawmakers' pique over the networks' incredible shrinking news hole is prompting legislation that will both shorten the time broadcasters have between license renewals and require full commission review of 5% of all licenses. The legislation was introduced by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., on Tuesday after the release of a report by the Norman Lear Center at the University of Southern California found evening TV newscasts contained little coverage of local political campaigns last year. It also would require broadcasters to post on their Internet sites information detailing their commitment to local public-affairs programming, and it calls...

The Democrats' Rough Road to Acceptance By Chris Shugart, 3 November 04 In her 1969 book, On Death and Dying, Swiss-born psychiatrist Elizabeth Kubler-Ross outlined the five stages of grief to describe the emotions of one dealing with death. As the 2004 presidential election was coming to a close late Tuesday/early Wednesday, it brought to mind the author’s insightful observations. It occurred to me that Democrats were probably in the process of going through something very much like this.   According to Kubler-ross, the five stages are: 1) Denial 2) Anger 3) Bargaining 4) Depression 5) Acceptance I thought it might...

FoxNews reports that the BBC unveiled details of its U.S. election coverage: Headlining the coverage is an election special featuring “Fahrenheit 9/11” director Michael Moore. Joining Mr. Moore will be former Clinton adviser Sidney Blumenthal, former Clinton secretary of State Madeleine Albright, and the militantly anti-Bush billionaire, George Soros. Fair and balanced?

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You expected something more dramatic at the end. A vote going deep into the night, a sudden twist from early results, maybe Indiana Jones swinging in on a rope. But instead, this singular, Hollywood-colored election ended Tuesday night at the opening credits with a blowout, and you could almost see the disappointment on the faces of some reporters who were hoping for an all-night thriller. Instead, at 8:01 p.m. California time, everybody, I mean everybody, all the way to Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," called it for Arnold Schwarzenegger. And while the easy win may have been...

October 31, 2002Get Smart Tuesday Night What to Look for as Networks Report House and Senate ResultsBy Josh Kurtz Sometime late Tuesday - or, more likely, early Wednesday - political junkies will know whether the Democrats or the Republicans emerged victorious on Election Day. Or whether Congress will remain hopelessly gridlocked. Or whether a state of limbo will take hold because recounts have become necessary. But how the story gets told - and when - depends on what network you tune into and what races their pundits designate as bellwethers. As is the case most election nights, logic would seem...